1. SAT Reading answers 1. B 12. B 2. B 13. D 3. C 14. A 4. A 15. A 5. C

2. SAT Writing answers 1. D 2. B 3. A 4. C 5. C 6. D 7. B 8. C 9. A 10. A

3. ACT English answers A G J D H B C F

4. Act Reading answers A J C H F B D

5. Reading Test
Basic Approach

6. SAT Reading
Mission: Read 5 passages and answer questions for each passage
Determine words in context
Author’s purpose for a detail
Find the main idea of a passage
Pinpoint information on a graph

7. ACT Reading
Mission: Read 4 passages and answer 10 questions for each passage
Determine words in context
Author’s purpose or function of a paragraph
Find the main theme of a passage
Find the correct information
Inference questions

8. Reading
Consider:
Type of passage: literature, science, history/social studies
Topic of passage: blurb gives you basic information
Types of questions: Line#?

9. Basic Approach Read the blurb to identify the type of passage
Understand the question
Read what you need
Use the Line references and questions to guide you
Predict the correct answer
The answer should come straight from the text. Don’t analyze.
Use POE

10. Step 1: Read the Blurb
The passage that follows is adapted from an 1859 novel that follows the lives of both English and French characters during the French Revolution.
1. The primary purpose of the passage as a whole is to
describe the history between Carton and Stryver.
characterize life at the Shrewsbury School.
reveal Carton’s character.
show that Stryver has been exploiting Carton.

11. Step 2. Select and Understand a Question
If you don’t have time, don’t read the whole passage
Questions tell you what details are important
Questions are in chronological order
Rephrase the question:
Who? What? Why?

12. Understand the questions
2. Based on the information in the passage, Carton is best characterized as:
unsound.
mercurial.
unlucky.
imperceptive.

13. Step 3: Read What You Need
Line reference: Line number is provided
Lead words: names, quotes, phrases that are easy to spot
Ex: ACT 2. The narrator describes the photos by Bombay’s first great photographers as primarily inspiring the narrator to:
(Line 61) “It was from my father that I learned of Bombay’s first great photographers…”

14. Read What you Need Topic sentences, concluding sentences
5 Above, 5 Below rule
10. The “tears” referred to in line 85 are “wasted” because
Miss Manette will never love Carton.
Carton is unlikely to change his ways.
Carton’s home is one of squalor.
Stryver will continue to exploit Carton’s labor

15. Read What You Need
Climbing to a high chamber in a well of houses, he threw himself down in his clothes on a neglected bed, (line 85) and its pillow was wet with wasted tears, Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

16. Step 4: Predict Your Answer
Know what you’re looking for in advance
Stick with the text
Don’t paraphrase or analyze

17. Predict Your Answer
17. The primary rhetorical effect of the last sentence of the passage is to
Convey the sense of dread that hung over Estonia at the height of the Singing Revolution
Indicate the depth of disagreement between violent and non-violent revolutionaries
Show how crucial music and poetry were to Estonia’s fight for independence
Communicate the sense of optimistic tension that Estonians felt after the Night Song Festivals

18. Predict Your Answer Estonia remained occupied by the Soviets….. (-)
This was the heart of “The Singing Revolution,” a spontaneous, non-violent, but powerful political movement that united Estonians with poetry and music. After that there was no backing up. Sedition hung in the wind, waiting to be denied. (?)

19. Step 5: Process of Elimination
Look for the wrong answer and eliminate wrong answer choices
Pay attention to what it is the question is asking for
Does your selection answer the question?
Use First Word Analysis

20. POE
5. Which of the following statements best captures how the narrator’s parents balanced their parental duties with their work at the construction company?
The narrator’s mother did…work
The narrator’s parents traded off responsibility…
The narrator’s father worked…
The narrator’s parents…worked at the company

21. POE
ETS will give you answer choices with words that look like the passage to trick you. Make sure you’re reading carefully and not just matching words!

22. Notice Reading Test September 1, 2016 (Wednesday)
Reminder: Test of Reading skills
You will be tested on both tests in the semester

23. Homework Correct your SAT test (by Friday)
Study Vocabulary Set #1 from VOCAB Intensive Camp for Tuesday, August 30
Write a sentence for each word on the list on separate lined A4 paper